Furniture, Gifts, Chocolate and More at the Platypus Store in Montvale, NJ

Platypus is a real little treasure located in the Tice Shopping Center on Chestnut Ridge Road in Montvale, N.J.. This is a beautiful store full of delightful gifts, hand made furniture, lovely home accessories and some of the best coffee around. It's located near the WIlliam Sonoma end of the shoppng strip.

The Platypus stores have been in business for 30 years. They offer delivery from Boston to Florida. They have gorgeous hand painted furniture, custom upholstered pieces and wonderful outdoor furniture in the summer. Their outdoor furniture is Teak or aluminum.

They carry Regency, John Hancock, Homestead lines of furniture and more. Most of the time they will have a discount on many pieces. They offer hand painted furniture with custom colors for only 20% additional cost.

When you walk in you have little venues of their furniture set up so you can get the feel of how pieces look together. They carry very realistic silk flowers, wonderful small pieces, end tables, coffee tables and large imposing pieces, hutches, cabinets, tables, lamps, leather armchairs, rugs, headboards with all the linens and throws and pillows to go with these pieces.

Walk around through the furniture area, scan the walls, check out the wonderful knickknacks on the shelves. There are shelves loaded with wonderful decorative pieces. Prints, pictures and mirrors are availabe, large or small, all extremely decorative.

As you walk around you will smell the aroma of fresh coffee. Keep walking. You can check out the unusual flatware and serving pieces and the charming gift items. The displays are very creative. The flatware is displayed on a bed of coffee beans. They carry a lot of unusual gifts. If you walk to the left side of the store you will come upon the Godiva chocolates, Belgian chocolates, Chocolate covered cherries and pistachios, Joe Schmidt Truffles, chocolate dipped pretzels and wonderful cookies.